Lewisham

Suburb

Primarily residential suburb in Sydney's inner-west.

Lewisham

by Chrys Meader, 2008

 

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Cadigal country until large grants were given to settlers in the early colony, Lewisham remained timbered and rural until the mid-nineteenth century. Its Catholic church, cemetery and hospital dominated one side of the suburb, and were the site of an air crash in 1946 when two staff were killed.
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Lewisham demographics